662 FLORA OF AUSTRALIA, 



in venation and colour, as also in the timber and pod. In 

 botanical sequence it is placed between that species and A. harpo- 

 phytla, F.v.M. 



1 1 has been usual in the past to regard in herbaria this tree 

 ("Gidgee ") and " Yarran " as one and the same species, and in 

 the botanical literature of the Acacias they are designated as 

 A. homalophylla, A. Cunn. It would appear, however, in the 

 held that the " Gidgee " and " Yarran " are never confounded by 

 settlers, the two trees, as they remark, " being quite different." 



Mr. R. H. Cambage, L.S., who has given recent attention to 

 these particular trees, and who has repeatedly disputed their 

 being specifically the same, has procured sufficient material and 

 evidence to convince me that the two should be separated; and I 

 now propose the name of A. Cambagei for the Wattle known over 

 a large tract of the interior of New South Wales as " Gidgee." 



Bentham's description of A. homalophylla, A. Cunn. (B.Fl. ii. 

 38 *), and Mueller's figure (Iconography of Acacias) of that species 

 undoubtedly refer to "Yarran," which I have myself collected in 

 several parts of this colony. The two species can be easily 

 separated in dried specimens, the plryllodes being quite dissimilar, 

 as well as the pods, funicle and timber. 



In the field "Gidgee" is separated from "Yarran" by the 

 offensive odour of its phyllodia and timber, which in wet weather 

 is particularly disagreeable, and can be detected when one is miles 

 away from the trees. 



Timber hard, close-grained, often interlocked, of a dark reddish 

 or almost black colour, possessing a very disagreeable odour parti- 

 cularly when burned. It is very durable, and Mr. R. H. Cambage 

 records an instance of its having been used as fence posts for 

 over 30 years. 



*A. excelsa, Benth. (" Ironwood "). —Western Interior from 

 Dubbo to the Darling ( W. Bauerlen); 30 miles south of Nymagee, 

 N.S.W., the most southern locality (R. H. Cambage). 



* Species marked with an asterisk have not previously been recorded 

 from New South Wales. 



